Biomedical Model

Question 0

Blinders

Answer 0

Practitioners - see some things and don’t see others (i.e. pathology)

Question 1

Biomedical Model (BMM)

Answer 1

Theory about disease; focuses attention on particular aspects of health; what people should accept (in terms of health)
*Influences practices of medicine, medical education, research funding, and public beliefs

Question 2

Four Elements of BMM (SEE Power Point PLEASE)

Answer 2

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Question 3

Biomedical View

Answer 3

1. Cause of disease (biological entity); specific ediology (one cause), physical reduction, and mind is irrelevant
2. Disease and diagnosis (disease is real and objective); body = machine
3. Treatment (fix part of machine that is broken); specialists look for “broken part” rather than looking at entire “machine”, individual = doctor-patient (don’t look beyond individual)

Question 4

Allopathic Medicine

Answer 4

Basic belief system adopted in the 1800s - “wrong to do nothing”

Question 5

Socio-medical Model (Problems and Alternatives to Biomedical Model)

Answer 5

1. Cause = too simplistic; look at multiple variables (not enough), add social and psychological values (not enough), and need to look at macro affects
2. Disease and diagnosis = make up diseases (socially influenced - medicalization); may be highly subjective (not reliable - two sources = two different results)
3. Treatment = social factors influence treatments; focus on individual (not effective), “doing something is not always the best idea”, cure is over emphasized (focus on prevention), and don’t just treat disease (consider illness)

Question 6

Illness

Answer 6

Emotional, psychological, or social dimension of the disease experience